April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

Combat science: OSRD's postscript in the Pacific / Roy Macleod -- The Smithsonian goes to war: the increase and diffusion of scientific knowledge in the Pacific / Pamela M. Henson -- Malaria in the ...

Controversy flared in the mid-1990s when the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., decided to exhibit the Enola Gay's forward cabin. An accompanying narrative focused mostly on Japan's ...

The Bearcat arrived with everything a late-war carrier fighter was supposed to have: speed, punch, and an exceptional climb rate, wrapped in a compact airframe built around the same powerful Double ...